Thanksgiving Consumers Shopped by Smartphone $ADBE, $CRM, $TGT, $M, $KSS, $JWN Adobe Analytics (NASDAQ:ADBE) reported that nearly 50% of the $3-B’s spent on Thanksgiving Day was spent by consumers on their couches shopping by Smartphone. “The big story this holiday season is in mobile shopping,” Mickey Mericle, the vice president of Adobe’s Marketing and Customer […]

Banks, Cash Will Be Replaced by Computers & SmartPhones $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $VXX Jim Rogers predicts that banks must invest in the financial technology, or “fintech,” or become outdated and replaced. “My children will never walk into a bank when they become adults as by then all the banks along the streets will be replaced […]

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) HEFFX Highlights Last April, AMD (AMD) acquired the assets and personnel of a small outfit called “Nitero” responsible for making VR wireless technology. The idea here is to ditch the cord that comes out of the back of VR equipment. If you have ever used a VR headset, the cord […]

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) HEFFX Highlights Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has launched its Embedded Radeon E9170 Series GPU, which promises up to three times the performance per watt as previous generations of GPUs. The new device is the first of its kind to leverage the power of AMD’s Polaris architecture. “Developers are continuing to […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) HEFFX Highlights Intel Corp. has closed its Recon brand of augmented-reality goggles for sporting and industrial applications, according to people familiar with the decision. The chipmaker shut the 100-employee unit that made the goggles earlier this summer, the people said. Intel acquired Recon in 2015 for an undisclosed sum, and had already […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) HEFFX Highlights Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) promise to transform how people engage with the world and how businesses operate in order to make smarter decisions, and Intel® technology is enabling this transformation. Today, Intel is highlighting how its AI technology is being leveraged by one of the world’s largest […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) HEFFX Highlights Intel announced its latest eighth-generation Core processors today, and is promising that the new chips will offer up to a 40 percent speed boost over the previous seventh-generation Kaby Lake chips. The eighth-generation chips will be doing things a little differently from other generations. In the past, Intel has either […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) CEO Steps Down From POTUS Advisory Board Intel CEO Brian Krzanich is the latest chief executive to step down from President Donald Trump’s jobs advisory board, and the first among the remaining tech industry leaders to do so following the attacks perpetuated by white supremacists and affiliated groups during a Charlottesville, Virginia […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) HEFFX Highlights PC enthusiasts are waiting for several exciting products to hit retailer shelves in the coming months, but one of the most anticipated – Intel’s Coffee Lake six-core CPUs, which are the company’s successors to its current Skylake CPUs, will not be compatible with current motherboards. Despite rumors of a possible […]

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) Real Competition Against NVIDIA AMD is finally unveiling its Radeon RX Vega family of GPUs today, designed to compete with Nvidia at the high end of gaming PCs. Its been years since AMD has truly competed at the top, and the last new flagship card, the Fury X, was released […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) Surpassed By Samsung Samsung Electronics Co., the South Korean technology company best known for its smartphones and televisions, has taken the title of world’s largest chip maker by revenue, knocking Intel Corp. from a perch it held for nearly a quarter-century. Samsung’s semiconductor unit, whose fortunes come largely from selling memory chips […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) Q2 Tommorrow Intel 2Q 2017 earnings are set for release on Thursday after closing bell, and Wall Street is looking for non-GAAP earnings of around 68 cents per share on $14.4 billion in revenue. The chip maker is trying to stand its ground against upstarts NVIDIA and AMD, so investors will be […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) Says Qualcomm Is Trying To Kill Chip Competitors Intel has jumped into the fray surrounding the Apple-Qualcomm patent spat by accusing the world’s biggest maker of mobile phone chips of trying to use the courts to snuff out competition. The chip giant made the allegation late Thursday in a public statement (PDF) […]

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) HEFFX Highlights AMD’s Epyc server chips look very competitive in early benchmarks versus Intel’s latest Xeon chips. However, there’s more to the story, and AMD’s penetration of the server market isn’t necessarily straightforward. Still, all things weighted, it would look like there are significant niches to be explored by AMD. […]

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) HEFFX Highlights AMD’s Ryzen processors show declining prices, while Intel’s corresponding products have not. Steam shows AMD suffering from declining market share for their users, from February to the present. While disappointing, this is not significant because this was always a difficult market. The real fight comes when AMD releases […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) HEFFX Highlights Intel’s latest 10-core, high-end desktop (HEDT) chip—the Core i9-7900X—costs £900/$1000. That’s £500/$500 less than its predecessor, the i7-6950X. In previous years, such cost-cutting would have been regarded as generous. You might, at a stretch, even call it good value. But that was at a time when Intel’s monopoly on the […]

Computer Software is Disrupting Traditional Industries Worldwide $IBM, $FB, $AMZN, $GOOGL, $MSFT Software will disrupt most traditional industries everywhere in the next 5-10 years. Uber is a software tool, they do not own cars not 1, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) HEFFX Weekly Highlight Intel has today allowed review websites to publish results for its new high-end desktop (HEDT) platform, which brings the X299 chipset and nine new processors including a monster 18-core beast to the mix as well as a number of new motherboards. Intel has discontinued three of its offerings for […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) HEFFXs 10 Highlights Intel lost billions of dollars in a futile attempt to crack the smartphone processor market. Now a Brazilian phone seller says some of those poor selling mobile chips were defective, too. Qbex Computadores filed a lawsuit against Intel in U.S. district court in California on Monday, charging that thousands […]

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) Rallies To Compete Advanced Micro Devices Continues To Rally Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) have had a bitter rivalry for decades now though its intensity had waned in recent years as AMD became dysfunctional, uncompetitive, and nearly insolvent. However, with AMD’s comeback underway, it appears as if we’re […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) Sets Cinbench World Record Intel Core X-Series Already Overclocked To A Blistering 5.7GHz, Setting Cinebench World Record “This is the most extreme desktop ever introduced,” Gregory Bryant, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group, wrote in a blog post. “In other words, do you really need to […]

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) NVIDA Recommends AMD Ryzen AMD will consider “selectively” licensing its intellectual property, “we’re really trying to look for those areas that can grow our market share,” Su said. “It’s about how do we sell more products, or how do we have our IP in markets where we’re not currently selling […]

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) Planning to remove Thunderbolt 3 royalties Intel is planning to get rid of the royalties it charges third-party chipmakers that use its Thunderbolt 3 specification sometime next year Thunderbolt 3 is one of the most versatile USB-C solutions out there, with fast speeds and charging, but Intel’s licensing fees also meant that […]

High Frequency Trading in the Stock Market, How it Works High Frequency Trading (HFT) is when a trader or institutions utilizes technology and powerful computers to automate trading and execute large orders at very high speeds through the use of algorithms. Their super computers are able to scan the market in secs looking for ideal […]

US Factory Activity Dives for 1st Time in 6 Months, Jobs Cut $DIA, $SPY, $QQQ, $VXX US manufacturing contracted in August for the 1st time since February, as new orders and output plummeted and factories cut jobs. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) says its manufacturing index dropped to 49.4 in August from 52.6 in […]